For my felt drawing I struggled in finding some scene that represented what I wanted to be as a medieval doctor. I finally came up with something and then I struggled with perspective. I wanted to make it look like medieval are work by using an untrue and impossible perspective. I decided to kin dove do that but also use some realism. I really like the cabinet because it shows that I am a doctor without filling up the whole page.
This is my illuminated letter. I picked L as my letter because my name starts with L. I think this was one of my favorite activity because I could really do whatever I wanted. I looked at some photos and was really inspired. It was interesting to me that I was actual doing art work that people used to spend there lives making. I really liked this project.
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I chose my style because soul music was a genre I never new about. I soon found out that a lot of the songs I listened to where soul. I just thought it was the best style for me.
Soul is really a mix of jazz, African american music, and gospel. It usual consists of vocals, saxophone, and piano. It originated in the 1950s.
When I first started composing my piece I had no idea where to start. I started with drums and piano, and then I brought in saxophone, and wrote lyrics. It was really fun composing my piece.
This quarter we have done a fun activity called your perfect house. We looked up a picture of our perfect house, and then we wrote a sentence in french about each room in the house. We used bags rule adjective which means that the adjective goes before the noun instead of after. I learned that there are a lot of bags adjectives that we use in daily life. I really enjoyed studying quizlet and learning different adjectives.
This quarter has been very big, but a great learning time. I am both a visual and a listening learner. I don’t think I could learn without one of them and I am happy I can express both.
I think I have developed many strengths this quarter and one of them is writing a report on a book by looking back in the book and translating the information into my own voice. When we did the lit circles, this quality helped because we got assigned jobs and we got to summarise the book in our own voice. Also being a persistent and hard working person really came in handy for everything this quarter. My challenges in Humanities are being able to focus hard on tasks that I don’t enjoy as much as other work. I struggled with this when doing the plague letters. I think I am my best learner when I can first learn by Lynne talking in class, and then look at some kind of study guide, that reflects some of the important things Lynne talked about. This helped me a lot when doing are medieval women presentation because first Lynne told us about some of the important women and then we read more about that women. I think the skill I am most proud of is being able to work as hard as I can on something until I am proud of it. Sometimes I worry about a test or a quiz which some people might think is bad, but I look at the bright side. When I worry the only way to soothe my worry is to be absolutely sure of what I am doing, so I study. It prepares me and I like that quality about myself. This helped me on the Who the Heck are You? piece because I had to get the answer I wanted from my interviewer without pushing it on them. I need to be able to take constructive criticism better and stop being as stubborn. Sometimes if I think I have a great idea and the teacher does not agree. It is hard for me to change that idea that I still think is so great, but I am working hard on it and I think I will soon change. I need to put my stubbornness aside and learn from the teachers. I think I could work on this with the plague letter. I made a very dramatic piece and I liked it but Julia didn’t, so I just had to trust her decision and put it behind me. My goals for the 4th quarter are to read more, work harder, and be able to relate with what the teacher wants more. I will try to work on writing exercises out of school on my own time, to help me improve. I want to wrap up this year well, and if I follow my goals I will be able to.
IN science we started studying the human body. We looked at what food is good and bad for you and then we estimated how much protein, grain, dairy, fruit, and vegetables we ate before we started this project and then we recorded how much of each food we eat now and this is the chart. To see the chart click blog post in the image.
This quarter has been full of new and great things. Even after all of the fuss and craziness of the quarter, we always had book partnerships. If you just need to sit down with a book and relax, book partnerships are great. You just pick a short writing assignment to do after your reading, and then about twice a week you share your thoughts of the portion of the book you read that week. I had a goal at the begging of book partnerships, that I would read a book that I really wanted to read, but was a school assignment. The book Al Capone does my Shirts,(the book we read in book partner ships) really connected with me, because it was about a kid my age, who was really going through the same thoughts and decisions that both me and my partner go through, and I think that that was why it was so intriguing.
This quarter in math has been really fun. It feels like a million things have happened in this month, not just in math but life. This quarter in math we have taken a take home test, learned how to deal with fractions decimals and percents, and learned the basics of the endless concept of geometry. We are learning area and perimeter of triangles at the moment, and just before we learned how to find the area and perimeter of a rectangle. Before we started learning about area and perimeter, we where studying how to give a certain tip percent, how to know the tax by looking at a percent, and adding the tax to the total amount while also adding the tip. This is my favorite subject I have ever learned in math because I use it all the time and every time I go to a restaurant I ask my parents to give me the total amount, the tip, and the tax so I can tell them the calculations. When we took the take-home test on this subject every equation felt like I was just doing a simple task. It was basically second nature to me. I would love to develop the same second nature quality for geometry. Math had been so fun this year and I am really sad it’s almost over.
The project we are doing in art is a geometric shape drawing. We where given a blank grid and we had to create color and shapes in it. We colored it in with interesting patterns. I decided to draw a greenish blue design with a dotted pattern inside the lines getting smaller and smaller. I really like this activity and I will be done with it soon. The art project is connected to our medieval study because in that time they would create art like that.
Revision is the final tweaks that change a story from good to outstanding. Revision is smoothing out the bumps in a carpet turning it from a story somebody wants to like to a story that people actually like. It makes the story great and basically is one of the most important steps in writing. Think of it like every piece of writing before revision is like a very long outline and after you have revised it is a story.
Before we made this story we read the book Arabian Nights. Then we took themes from the book and wrote our own chapters.
ARABIAN NIGHTS STORY:
Long ago in Arabia in the town Petzi there lived a king named Abdul. He had a wife and a sprouting boy at the young age of 16. Abdul was generous to his people, but when it came to his family he was cruel and draconian. His wife, Kamma, was a quiet women that made little to no decisions for the family. But Abdul’s son Abbas was brave, stout and handsome. He was a good student well mannered and very active. Unfortunately Abdul was jealous of Abbas’ growing power and felt threatened by him. So he pushed his dreams down and ignored Abbas. One day, during a leisurely nap Abbas was having, he saw a silhouette of a group of what seemed to be small children. When the creatures got closer he recognised them from the fairy tails. They were the 99 red demands of Petzi. They protected the town from any rath allah might have against the town. They visited people’s dreams and told them how to make up for their sins. They red demons came to Abbas. Abbas said,” my kind demons, why have you come to me. Have I sined?”
”No.” What seemed to be the head demon declared, “but your father has. He has disobeyed the 5 pillars of Islam and shall be punished if he not fix his mistakes.
“ May I ask what pillar my father has disobeyed?”
”The zakat. Not once in his life has he given a scent to charity.”
“Oh no. I truly am so sorry for my father’s disobedience.” Abbas said, what does he have to do to fix his mistakes?”
“For the next 99 days a beggar will come. Every day your father must put 99 coins in a bag and leave it outside the palace. “
“What is the consequence if he does not follow these steps?”
“Allah will slaughter both your mother and father!” Abbas told his father what the Demons had said and Abdul immediately refused. Abbas pleaded, but still Abdul said no. Abbas ran into his room wailing for 3 days. Finally his mother snuck the money out of Abdul’s money cellar and cautiously gave it to Abbas. He was overjoyed and hid the money under his bed. the next day Abdul found the coins and was furious. But morning approached and Sheherazad ended her story. the next night she said oh happy king this is what Abdul did to Abbas and Kamma.
Abdul was so enraged that he threw both Abbas and Kamma in the town jail. Abbas was used to having lavish and expensive item, but when he saw the jail he was shocked. The walls were made of hard stone, the beds were stained with the blood of the sick, and the bathrooms where in the middle of the room with no walls for privacy. Abbas was appalled. His mother on the other hand had lived a life as the daughter of a poor merchant in Medina. She slept in the same bed with her 6 sisters until she was 16 and was married to the king. After a few days abbas and Kamma decided to introduce themselves to the other inmates. After a few people Abbas ran into a demon. His scales had the same rigid patterns as the red demons. He also had the same doll like head and short stubby legs as the red demons. Abbas introduced himself and the demon said with with a peppy amount of surprise of surprise,”are you the prince!”
“Why yes.” Abbas exclaimed, “and this is the queen.” Abbas swiftly grabbed a hand out to Kamma and pulled her out of a conversation that she was having with another inmate. The demon hollard a stout hello and then asked why the prince and queen were in a jail cell. Abbas explained and asked why the demon was in jail. The demon explained how he was part of the red demon pack and was the 100th demon. He explained how Abdul had locked him in the cell for stealing 2 dollars from one of Abdul’s guards. The red demon explained how he could help kamma and Abbas.
“ You first need to tell Abdul this story. It will open his heart and he will surely want to follow the Zakat. Long ago there lived a rich man named Bagni N. He lived in the heart of Mecca in the grandest house. He was cruel and hated children but his worst sin was that he followed none of the 5 pillars of Islam. One day in the month of Ramadan when he was waiting for the call of prayer he heard a sound. It was coins. He rushed out of his house looking for where the coins were coming from. When he saw a group of people laughing and throwing their gold coins in a big pile. He asked one of the men what this madness was, and the man answered, “Well it’s the monthly charity service. We do it once a month following the customary zakat rules. We all take 20 coins from our monthly prophet and we put it in the moneybag.” Bag Nin smirked and started to walk away until he heard the sweet laughs of the homeless children. Many people were handing them a coin or two and they were jumping up and down. Bagnin looked at them and felt something, Happiness. He ran into his house and grabbed a chest of gold coins. He put it in the town square and let the people take it for themselves.” Abbas thanked the demon for helping them and then forced Abdul into letting him explain what really happened. Abbas told Abdul the story. Abdul’s heart opened and he found every beggar in the city and gave him a sack of gold coins. Abbas and Kamma requested that the 100th demon be let free from the jail and Abdul set him free immediately. Abbas and his family lived a happy Muslim life in the town of Petzi.
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I feel as though my Arabian nights story has changed drastically over a very short period. I made a short outline for it but somehow wrote a completely different story. I handed it in and was happy with it but then we got another assignment that was to revise in great detail. Thanks to revision I found that my story was not as good as I thought. I had little to know dialog and skimped through very important parts. After I revised I felt as though I my story is 100 times better.